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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skanthan" data-source="post: 12007883" data-attributes="member: 202423">Sometime ago, someone had told me that ණ and ළ should be dropped from the Sinhala alphabet and the letters න and ල be used in their place. I understand that from a phonemic point of view, ණ and ළ are pronounced the same as න and ල. But in reality, would dropping ණ and ළ be a good idea? There are many words of Sanskrit and Pali origin that have those letters in them and while we could perhaps drop ණ and ළ from some ශුද්ධ සිංහල words, it would be better to retain them in words of Sanskrit and Pali origin.</blockquote>

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